Japanese Wooden Carved Kashigata Cake Mold Vtg Sweet Wagashi Pine Plum Kg517 Kataguchi zaru Red line around the edge

Red line around the edge

21 cm wide x 24 cm tall

This is an antique Japanese Buddhist altar fitting wooden offering table Maejyoku

Item weight: 750 grams

The Saigoku Pilgrimage is Japan's oldest pilgrimage and involves visiting 33 temples and "Fudasho" in five prefectures

Japanese Wooden Carved Kashigata Cake Mold Vtg Sweet Wagashi Pine Plum Kg517 Kataguchi zaru Red line around the edgeVintage Japanese Kashigata, Cake and Candy Mold Japanese kashigata are hand carved wooden molds used to make higashi since the Edo period. Higashi is a broad category of wagashi (traditional Japanese sweets) and is a low moisture treat made with soybean flour or rice flour, fine sugar, and other ingredients. These materials are packed tightly into kashigata molds and dried to create beautiful designs and shapes. Many of these sweets can be found in